Serial Number Table Last Edited: 01/1/13 04:15NOTE: dates shown are JAN 1 unless noted, so the serial number shown is the *first* serial number produced the given year. Exceptions are serial
numbers preceded by "up to"(where you can assume that the numbers reported in that subsection are DECEMBER 31, END OF YEAR NUMBERS)
or rows where a month is given in the month column. If the serial number is shown as a range (xxxx-xxxx) it indicates
that we know the entire range of serial numbers for the given year.

Continental

Wanderer- Werke, vorm. Winklhofer&Jaenicke, Sigmar-Schoenau,
Germany

After the WW2: VEB Bueromaschinenwerk, Karl-Marx-Stadt,
GDR

Models and s/n

Y

M

D

Remarks

Ref.

Standard

up to 400

1904

7,10,13

1700

1905

7,10,13

4000

1906

7,10,13

6000

1907

7,10,13

10900

1908

7,10,13

16000

1909

7,10,13

20000

1910

7,10,13

40000

1911

7,10,13

55000

1912

7,10,13

70000

1913

7,10,13

80000

1914

7,10,13

90000

1915

7,10,13

95000

1916

7,10,13

105000

1917

7,10,13

120000

1918

7,10,13

135000

1919

7,10,13

157000

1920

7,10,13

182000

1921

7,10,13

216000

1922

7,10,13

240000

1923

7,10,13

270000

1924

7,10,13

310000

1925

7,10,13

348000

1927

7,10,13

385000

1928

"Silent" carriage return from 385000

7,10,13

415000

1929

7,10,13

445000

1930

7,10,13

460000

1931

7,10,13

475000

1932

7,13

490000

1933

Tabulator Model commenced at 49000 in Nov. 1933.

7,13

420000

1934

7,13

550000

1935

7,13

580000

1936

7,13

620000

1937

7,13

700000

1938

7,13

850000

1939

7,13

900000

1940

13

940000

1941

13

955000

1942

13

977000

1943

13

1000000

1949

13

1010000

1950

"Size I", 24-cm carriage

13

1104000

1952

13

1200000

1954

13

over 2000000

1951

"Size II", 32-cm carriage

13

up to 2100000

1954

13

over 4000000

1951

"Size IV", 46-cm carriage

13

4600000

1954

13

Silenta

up to 700000

1934

6,13

705000

1935

6,13

710000

1936

6,13

730000

1937

6,13

740000

1938

6,13

750000

1939

6,13

755000

1940

6,13

762000

1941

6,13

766000

1942

6,13

768000

1943

6,13

Portable

Klein-Continental

up to 10000

1930

starting 1929

6,9

30000

1932

9

50000

1933

9

60000

1934

6

100000

1936

6,9

New Model

13

up to 215000

1936

13

240000

1937

13

274000

1938

Model 100 starting 1938, runs in same serial nos. like the
new model of the Klein-Continental

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Reference numbers

*
Indicates source data the current list maintainer has access to. Usually it means we have a copy of the document in question, but it might be in the form of a later edition list. However, for the purposes of validation we have been able to confirm the source.

No.

Literature

1

* Century of the Typewriter, Wilfred A. Beeching, publ. by
the British Typewriter Museum, 1974, 1990, ISBN 0951679007

* R. Blickensderfer and P. Robert, "The Five-Pound Secretary. An Illustrated History
of the Blickensderfer Typewriter", publ. 2003 by The Virtual Typewriter Museum, excerpt contributed by Georg Sommeregger.